Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan

The Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan (PSK) is an illegal Marxist-Leninist party in Turkey that was founded in 1960. Headquartered in Turkish Kurdistan and operating in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, the PSK was considered by Turkish police to be one of twelve terrorist groups in Turkey and one of three Kurdish groups. The party allied with the PKK and other Kurdish groups during the fight for independence from Turkey after the 1970s, and it failed to take over several PKK members after Abdullah Ocalan's 1998 arrest.